Top 10 World Music Albums, January (#1259)

Artist – Song – Album

Hour 1
Didon – Oh Maiden – يا للّا – Tunesian Tale
Tanxugueiras – Arica – Diluvio
Sonido Verde de Moyobamba – La Longuita – Sonido Verde De Moyobamba
Taraf Syriana – Me Dukhhap tuke – Taraf Syriana
Vusi Mahlasela, Norman Zulu & Jive Connection – Anastacia – Face to Face
Sona Jobarteh – Fondinkeeya – Badinyaa Kumoo
Mawaca – TANT DEMAN / BOI DA BEIRA (feat. Cristina Guiça) – Nama Pariret
Debashish Bhattacharya – The Sound of the Soul – The Sound of the Soul
Mwezi Waq. – Ngayo ha ngayo – Le Blues des Sourds-Muets
Meral Polat Trio – Bile Bile – Ez Kî Me
Natacha Atlas – Moustahil – Halim
Hamid El Kasri – Bouhali – Roots & Plugged

Hour 2
Nenĭa Iră – La hyène – Nenĭa Iră
Sevara Nazarkhan – Ei Nozanin (Beautirul) – Yol Bolsin
Totó La Momposina – Los Sabores del Porro – Carmelina
Payadora Tango Ensemble – Don’t Let Us Starve (feat. Aviva Chernick & Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk) – Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango
Mahsa Vahdat & Skruk – Home of the Moon – Braids of Innocence
Tárkány Trió – Szombathelyi csárdások és lefogás – A cimbalomprímás
Buika – Echate a Mi Vera – Buika
S.E. Rogie – Recipe for Truth and Lasting Happiness – The New Sounds of S.E. Rogie
Shooglenifty – Scraping the Barrel (Live Version) – Radical Mestizo
Dicro – Bom de briga – Dicró
Bajofondo Tango Club – Fairly Right Featuring Elvis Costello – Mardulce
Barika – Eh Baba – Remember

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Songs of Blackness (#1409)Songs of Blackness (#1409)

Hour 1 (artist – song – album):
Cabruêra – Samba Negro – Sons Da Paraíba
DJ Spinna – Barrio Negro – Brazilian Funk Mode
Airto Fogo – Black Soul – Africa Airways Six (Mile High Funk 1974-1981)
Gino Sitson – Ngoyak’ (Black Feeling) – Song Zin’… Vocadelic Tales
Amazonas – Black Magic Woman – Amazonas Play Santana
Ben Tavera King – New Dehli Noir (feat. Jessita Reyes) – Fever Dream s (feat. Jessita Reyes)
West Nkosi – Inkunzi Emnyama (Black Bull) – Rhythm of Healing – Supreme Sax and Penny Whistle Township Jive
Ilê Aiyê – Negro De Luz – Black Chant
Latcho Drom – Papillon noir – Deborah – 1999
Mohenjo Daro – Black River – Rajdhani Express
Kasbah Rockers – Black Pikala Noir – The Singles
Lolo Lovina – Paint it Black – RromAntics!
Black Flower – Ankor Wat – Future Flora
El Gato Negro – Como Bailo Yo – Cumbia Libre
Virginia Rodrigues – Sol Negro – Sol Negro

Hour 2:
Dragan Ristić – Negro – Romologija
Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Black is Beautiful – Wenyukela
Minyeshu – Jopia / Black Ink – Black Ink
Ziggy Marley – Black Cat – Love Is My Religion
Tony Allen – Black Voices (12″ Mix) – HomeCooking (Bonus Track)
Ana Tijoux – Oro Negro – Vengo
Aurelio – Santo Negro – Garifuna Soul
The Garifuna Collective – Black Catbird – A Guide to the Birdsongs of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean
Addis Black Mamba – Yekatit – Addis Black Mamba
The Budos Band – Black Venom – The Budos Band III
Eparapo – Black Lives Matter (feat. Dele Sosimi) – From London To Lagos (Remixes) [feat. Dele Sosimi] – EP
Orchestre Black Dragons de Porto-Novo Dahomey – Kouanabo – Vive la Revolution
Tania Libertad – Negro Color – Negro Color
Liu Jian – Black Pearls – Black Pearls
Kobo Town – Beautiful Soul – Independence

Music from War Zones (#1232)Music from War Zones (#1232)

Ukraine isn’t the only conflict area in today’s world. The depressingly long list also includes Cameroon, Columbia, Iraq, Nigeria, Tanzania, Myanmar, Burkina Faso, Algeria, and others. (See this list of ongoing armed conflicts.) But in many places, people are still living, working, making music, falling in love, having kids. This music is a reminder of those people, with the hope that we can move beyond violence as a way of settling differences.

Hour 1
Ahmed Mukhtar – Dance of War – The Road To Baghdad
Yiddish Glory – My Mother’s Grave (feat. Loyko) – The Lost Songs of World War II
Dhafer Youssef – Dance Layan Dance – Sounds of Mirrors
Hudaki Village Band – Dana Maye Dana – Yo!
Vasily Gontarsky – Сільвер Боб (Silver Bob) – Сільвер Боб (Silver Bob)
Invisible System – Kele (War) – Dance to the Full Moon
Luman Seidjalilov – Tym-Tym – Legend of Crimean Tatar Music
Tondo – Shakaza – Tanzanian Classics
Hassouna Bangaladish – Dam-Et El Shouq (Tears of Longing) – Hossam Ramzy Presents Azza: Music from Sudan
Ndala Kasheba – Kadi Ya Njano – Yellow Card
Jeli Moussa Sissoko – Sirifo Haidara – Ballaké (Kora Music From Mali)
Jawhar – Shahrayar Blues – Qibla Wa Qobla

Hour 2
Emmanuel Jal – Gua – The Rough Guide to the Music of Sudan
Omar Souleyman – Aenta Lhabbeytak – To Syria, With Love
Konsonans Retro – Kurka Chubaturka – A Podolian Affair
Cumbia en Moog – Cumbia de Sal – Cumbia de Sal
Kady Diarra – Laada – Musique Traditionnelle Du Burkina-Faso
Los Folkloristas – El Diablo (Son Terracalenteño, Guerrero) – México
Yemen Blues – Eli – Yemen Blues
Zafa – Wasmaee – Funky Grooves of Yemen
Farhad Darya – Salaam Afghanistan – The Rough Guide to the Music of Afghanistan
Marianna Sadovska – Cycle of Wedding Songs: Oi zasvity maty svichku/Sy plavalo sire utia/Za khatoiu/Dai u sinechkakh – Songs I Learned In Ukraine
Pisyuny – Perkalaba – Dido
Eyuphuro – Othiawene – Yellela
Gnawa Diffusion – Reche sous le chèche – Algeria
Haydamaky – Yidu tramvayem (I take the tram) – Kobzar

Global Songs of War and Peace (#1226)Global Songs of War and Peace (#1226)

Originally assembled as a collections about war and peace for Memorial Day in the USA, this playlist works just as well in light of the smaller but no less devastating violence of school shootings. Violence is a problem in many cultures, as these songs illustrate. We need to do better, and soon.

Hour 1
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin – Masters of War – Touristes
Atamina – When Two Elephants Fight – Sycophantic Friends
Phạm Mộng Hải – For the Fallen – Hanoi Masters: War Is a Wound, Peace Is a Scar
Yuriy Gurzhy & Wladimir Kaminer vs. Zelwer – The New Adventures Of Soldier Tufaiev – Electric Gypsyland 2
Balkan Beat Box – War Again – Blue Eyed Black Boy
Karibuni Addis – No Child Soldier – Back Road to Ethiopia
Hadag Nahash – War – 6
Amabutho – Amabutho (the Warriors) – Sikelela
Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac – Oran an t-Saighdeir/The Soldier’s Song – Seinn
Haris Alexiou – Soldier – Mondo Greece
Aditya Prakash Ensemble – The Warrior (feat. B.C. Manjunath & Josh Johnson) – Diaspora Kid
Yannick Noah – War / No More Trouble – Hommage
Soweto String Quartet – Ukusina Kwa Mabutho (The Dance of the Warriors) – Millennia
Moana & The Tribe – Warrior Woman – Rima
André Sampaio – Stop Fighting Immigrants (feat. Okwei Odili) – Alagbe

Hour 2
Invisible System – Kele (War) – Dance to the Full Moon
Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band – Warriors – Bone Reader
Morgane Ji – Woman Soldier – Woman Soldier
Warsaw Village Band – When Johnny Went to Fight In the War – Uprooting
FolkBeat – Сила Богатырская/The Strength of the Warriors – I’m Marching on My Own
Nytt Land – The Last War – The Last War – EP
De’Anza – War – Cosmic Dream
Ahmed Mukhtar – After the War – The Road To Baghdad
Baaba Maal – War – The Traveller
Tony Allen – Don’t Fight (edit) – Homecooking
Achien’g Abura – Spirit of a Warrior – Spirit of a Warrior
Chiwoniso – Rebel Woman – Rebel Woman
Mari Boine, Chiwoniso & Banda Dida – War Leaves No Victors – Make Me a Channel of Your Peace